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In 2014, after a tip off about a shop in Buenos Aires packed with dead stock adidas products, Gary Aspden and a gang including Ian Brown and Robert Brooks travelled to Argentina to meet the store’s owner Carlos Ruiz and film the now renowned documentary 'Sole Searching in South America.' In 2015, the group returned to present Ruiz with his own very special shoe.

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Sole Searching in South America 2

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In February 2014 a group of adidas enthusiasts from the UK were tipped off about a shop in Buenos Aires packed with vintage and dead stock adidas products. This group was made up of Stone Roses’ Ian Brown, trainer collector Robert Brooks, photographer Neil Bedford, filmmaker Greg Bond, plus Gary Aspden and Mike Chetcuti of adidas. They travelled to Argentina where they found the shop and met its owner Carlos Ruiz. The trip was captured in the now renowned documentary, Sole Searching in South America.

A number of the rare archive pieces brought back from this trip were used by Aspden as reference pieces to design the adidas Originals X Spezial Collections. By way of acknowledging store owner Ruiz and his kind support of the Spezial range, adidas created the New York SPZL 'Carlos' shoe. These come as part of a collective micro pack of two shoes and two graphic t-shirts. The New York is a vintage running shoe from the eighties; the trainer was discovered in Ruiz’s shop and as an ode to this it’s been made his signature shoe.

Sole Searching in South America 2 follows the same group of adidas fans as they reunite to travel back to Argentina to present Ruiz with his shoe and gift him with an allocation of these collectibles for his now legendary store. The film documents their journey and shows how Ruiz's lfe has changed since their original trip.